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That big. Im going to negotiate a very dangerous set of rapids this morning. The professor at Georgia Southwestern State University who is married u in fact torks one of my employees, dr. Glen robins, he says and i agree completely, generally, you can either talk about andersonville or the other military prisons of war. It becomes emotionally difficult to try to do both. I hesitate to use the acronym p. O. W. In a civil war context. Its a 20th century term. And i wliek to talk about. So it tends to slow me down a lot. Fall outside of the traditional heroic narrative of the war. And, again, you lose objectivity very quickly the longer you stay down in the wreckage of the war. Andersonville is the most famous of the military prisons. Its a long way from the rest of the civil war world, both literally and figuratively, the prison site was chosen on purpose 150 years ago to be as remote and as insulated a place in the confederacy far from perceived locations battle. And 50 years later, thi
, who is married, in fact, to one of my employees, dr. Glen robins, he says and i agree completely, generally, you can either talk about andersonville or the other military prisons of war. It becomes emotionally difficult to try to do both. And i will explore that. And i am going to weave in between the two a little bit. A note on semantics before i start any further. I hesitate to use the acronym p. O. W. In a civil war context. Because its a 20th century term. Like to talk a lot. Prisoner of war slows me down a little bit. Civil war prisons and prisoners of war fall outside of the traditional heroic narrative of the war. And looking into this story, in a sense, that requires one to dive deeply into the wreckage of the war, the consequences of the war. And, again, you lose objectivity very quickly the longer you stay down in the wreckage of the war. Andersonville is the most famous of the military prisons. Its a long way from the rest of the civil war world, both literally and figurat
And i like to talk a lot. Prisoner of war slows me down a little bit. Civil war prisons and prisoners of war fall outside of the traditional heroic narrative of the war. And looking into this story, in a sense, that requires one to dive deeply into the wreckage of the war, the consequences of the war. And, again, you lose objectivity very quickly the longer you stay down in the wreckage of the war. Andersonville is the most famous of the military prisons. Its a long way from the rest of the civil war world, both literally and figuratively. The prison site was chosen on purpose 150 years ago to be as remote and as insulated a place in the confederacy, far from perceived locations of battle. And 150 years later, this prisoner of war story remains distant from the rest of the narrative. We have the tendency to talk about prisoner of war camps, and andersonville, off to the side of the main narrative of the war. Its, you know, as we talk about battles and campaigns, oh, by the way, theres
His next book will be on the ends of the war, fighting the civil war after the end of appomattox. I am happy to have professor downs join us. I am going to talk about something that is overlooked in all kinds of narratives which is the importance of doing nothing. When congress came back in december of 1865 for many people it looked like they dont find a solution to address reconstruction until march of 1867. Despite things like the 14th amendment, this session can seem like and was critiqued at the time as a donothing session precisely because it didnt determine the end of the war. That it never established terms for war. But i want to flip that on its head and think about why it was so important for them not to establish terms for the end of the war and why doing nothing turned out to mean so much. I was led to this by contemplating the justly celebrated philosopher Jerome Allen Seinfeld known as jerry who said, doing nothing is not as easy as it looks. You have to be careful because